August Law for Lunch - The Impeachment Process: An academic and functional review

Description

Separation of powers is not absolute, and its system of checks and balances is designed to allow each branch to restrain abuse by another branch. As a result, legislatures often are granted the ability to oversee official government conduct and to remove executive or judicial public officers from their positions, called “impeachment.” Over the past several months, South Dakota has witnessed the process firsthand on both a state and federal level. Learn about it from legal scholars and practitioners as they discuss the process generally and from a practical perspective.